Tony Hyde has pledged to use his expertise in handling multi million pound regeneration and investment projects to lead the Worcestershire LEP business board forward to shape the economic environment for businesses in Worcestershire.

Worcestershire are expected to confirm the signing of Whelan, whose contract with Middlesex expired last week, when director of cricket Steve Rhodes returns from running in the New York Marathon later this week.

Clive Evans, team manager for pupil admissions and transfers, said: "Over the last few years parents in Worcestershire have increasingly taken the opportunity to make their applications online, which is not only speedier, but available 24 hours a day.

We have all welcomed the news that the UK is finally emerging from the longest period of recession in its history, and though the process of recovery will be a very long one, figures such as these are strong indicators that Worcestershire is already moving forward.

But, while Steve Rhodes' side have enjoyed success in the one-day game, bad luck and poor performances have seen Worcestershire drop back into LV County Championship Division Two after just one season in the top flight.

Bosses at the trust which runs Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester, Kidderminster Hospital and the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch and are expecting the number of cases to increase during a 15-week wave when predictions suggest 30 per cent of the population of Worcestershire, about 165,000 people, would get ill.

Solanki's first century in the short format - packed with 14 fours and two sixes - took him beyond 1,000 runs in Twenty20 cricket and gave Worcestershire the impetus to go past 200 for the fourth time in the competition.

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